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Sidney
Bowser |
West Bromwich Albion
FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 1:
A 1
50% successful
1919
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Sidney Bowser |
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Born |
6 April 1891
at 29 Cross Street,
Handsworth, Staffordshire [registered in
West Bromwich, June 1891]. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1891 census,
Sidney is about who became the
youngest of four children to George and Mary Jane (née Rush), living at 29 Cross Street in Handsworth. His father is a cabinet maker. |
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According to the 1901 census,
the middle child of seven children, still with their parents, still living
at 29 Cross Street. His father is a carpenter. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Sidney is a Pro Footballer, one of six children living with their parents
at 167 Watville Street in Handsworth. His father is a joiner.
He
only appears once on the Midlands Electoral Roll, in 1955. He and Gertrude
are living at 178 Green Lane in Small Heath. |
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According to the 1939 register, Sidney, a public house
manager, and Gertrude, are still married, living at The Crown Hotel, 201
Wolverhampton Street in Dudley. |
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Married |
to Gertrude
Manfield
[registered in Kings Norton, Warwickshire, September 1913]. |
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Died |
25 February 1961 in
Birmingham,
aged
69 years 325 days
[registered in Birmingham, March 1961]. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9½", 12st.
0lbs [1912]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his
career playing schoolboy football in Birmingham, and played with local
clubs such as Astbury Richmond FC, Willenhall FC, during which he had a
trial with Birmingham FC. But it was rivals West Bromwich Albion FC that
signed Bowser in August 1908. He made 123 league appearances,
scoring 44 goals, before falling out with his club and he signed for top Irish side Belfast
Distillery FC on 18 June 1913, but re-signed for West Brom on 6 February 1914.
He signed for Belliss and Morcom FC, of the Birmingham Suburban League, on
20 October 1915. Upon returning to Albion, he made another 218 league appearances, with twenty goals,
and then he joined Walsall FC on 8 August 1924, in a move that cost the club a £1000
transfer fee. He retired a year later, after 27 league
appearances. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Division Two winners 1910-11; FA Cup
runners-up 1911-12; Football League Champions 1919-20; |
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Individual honours |
Irish
League (one appearance) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of seven who became the 383rd players
(386) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-half |
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Only match |
No. 120, 25 October
1919, Ireland 1 England 1,
a British Championship match at
Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 28 years
202 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1919-20; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died two or three
weeks after Billy Balmer |
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Beyond England |
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Became a licensee in 1925,
working for many years in Dudley at The Crown Hotel. Also later managed an off-livence in
Acocks Green. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.40/41. |
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